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<div class="event-date">August 7th, 2013</div>
<div class="event-title">REST Easy with BizTalk Server 2013</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Chris Myers - Senior Consultant, Neudesic</div>    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        New REST adapters in BizTalk Server 2013 make it easy to incorporate third-party RESTful services into your SOA environment. 
        You’ll also be able to drive BizTalk workflows directly from your internal and external web portals
    </p>
    <p>
        In this presentation, Chris will teach you how to: 
        <ul>
            <li>Incorporate BizTalk workflows directly into web portals</li>
            <li>Consume third party RESTful services with ease</li>
            <li>Use HTTP methods, URIs, and payloads to create XML messages</li>
            <li>Leverage cloud hosted REST APIs directly within BizTalk processes</li>
        </ul>
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Chris is a senior developer at Neudesic where he provides consulting services for BizTalk and other related technologies. He is 
        also the Vice President of the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group (PCSUG). 

    </p>
    <p>
        Check out Chris' blog (<a href="http://bloggedbychris.com/">bloggedbychris.com</a>) or reach him on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/myerscj">@@myerscj</a>
    </p>
</div>

<div class="event-date">June 5th, 2013</div>
<div class="event-title">You Can Do That with Azure Service Bus?</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Brendon Birdoes - Phoenix Director of Solutions, Neudesic</div>    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        Azure Service Bus supports durable queues and topics that can be used to 
        facilitate messaging between clients. Seems you can sum up all you need to know about Service Bus in 
        one simple statement.  Of course, we build systems in the real world and discover requirements everyday 
        outside of the equivalent Hello World sample of reading and writing a message to a Service Bus queue. For 
        example, how do I send a batch of related messages? If I hit the max message size for a Service Bus message, 
        what do I do? Can I do request-response scenarios in Service Bus? What technologies can I use to connect to Service Bus? 
        This talk will show some of the other things you can do with Service Bus and help arm you for life in the wild of 
        integration development.
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Brendon is a Microsoft Certified Professional with over twelve years experience delivering web, thick client and 
        service-oriented solutions. With a range of experience in the Microsoft technology stack, Brendon focuses on 
        integration and service-oriented technologies such as Microsoft BizTalk Server, Windows Server AppFabric, Windows 
        Azure, Azure Service Bus, WCF and WF 4.0. One of his more notable projects was leading the BizTalk development 
        effort for the ESB Toolkit 2.0 for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009. Brendon is an active speaker in the Microsoft 
        community, delivering sessions for regional Microsoft events, Desert Code Camp and user groups. Brendon is 
        currently the Phoenix Director of Solutions at Neudesic. 
    </p>
    <p>
        You can reach Brendon on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/brendonbirdoes">@@brendonbirdoes</a>
    </p>
</div>
    
<div class="event-date">May 1st, 2013</div>
<div class="event-title">Introducing BizTalk 2013 and the new Cloud adapters</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Kent Weare - Senior Enterprise Architect</div>
    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        Microsoft recently released their 8th version of BizTalk called BizTalk Server 2013.  One of the new capabilities in this 
        version is the ability to use out of the box adapters when communicating with Windows Azure Service Bus endpoints and other 
        Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions.  In this session Kent will focus on exposing Line of Business services to the cloud 
        using the new WCF-BasicHttpRelay, SB-Messaging and WCF-WebHttp adapters.  This session will include some slides and lots of demos 
        including exposing SAP information to a mobile device using these technologies.
    </p>
</div>

<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Kent began his career at a small Internet startup in the late 90s. Since then he has worked on projects for the Canadian Federal 
        Government, a multi-national bank in the United States, Health Care projects in Eastern and Western Canada, and has spent the last 
        seven years working in the Energy sector. Kent is currently a Senior Enterprise Architect for a large Power Generation company in 
        Calgary.  During Kent’s time at the Federal Government, he had an opportunity to participate in his first BizTalk project. Nine 
        years later he is still hooked on BizTalk having worked with every BizTalk version released since.  In 2008, Kent was awarded his 
        first Microsoft MVP award for BizTalk Server. He continues to be active in the BizTalk community and recently received his sixth 
        consecutive MVP award. Kent maintains active blogs at http://kentweare.blogspot.com and http://www.MiddlewareInTheCloud.com. He has 
        also co-authored two BizTalk books: Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration and (MCTS): Microsoft BizTalk 
        Server 2010 (70-595) Certification Guide. Kent may also be seen presenting BizTalk-related material at local and international 
        user groups.
    </p>
</div>

<div class="event-date">April 3rd, 2013</div>
<div class="event-title">Consuming RESTful WebAPIs with Backbone.js</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Alexander Kahoun - Senior Consultant, Neudesic</div>
    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        The session will go over NoSQL databases with a focus on MongoDB. It will go over the official 10gen C#/MongoDB drivers and how 
        they can be used. Lastly it will cover how to put it all together to create a RESTful WebAPI project. Then show how we can 
        consume and display that data with Backbone.js and Require.js all while using CoffeeScript. We'll even hack into Backbone.js 
        a little bit to show how we can dynamically extract header information from our REST responses.
    </p>
</div>

<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Alexander is a software developer based out of Gilbert, AZ at Neudesic. He has over 10 years experience in the .NET stack in 
        various industries such as document management, government, casino gaming, charity, airlines, higher education, home building, 
        and many others. Alexander originally comes from Philadelphia, and though he has lived in Arizona for 7 years he still 
        pronounces “water” strangely. He enjoys technology and software development immensely and loves to share his knowledge. 
        When he isn't at his computer programming or playing games he’s trying to keep up with his daughter and two sons with the 
        help of his wife and dog.
    </p>
</div>

<div class="event-date">March 6th, 2013</div>
<div class="event-title">Real Time Master Data Management with BizTalk and Sql Server</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Corey Kreun, Solution Architect - Ryland Group</div>
    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        Master Data Management at its core is meant to aggregate and federate data from multiple systems to support the 
        complete representation of Master data entities. It can also be used to support operational transactions 
        within core business processes. As such, it has many natural use cases where it enables Service Oriented Architecture.
    </p>
    <p>
        In this presentation, we will examine a reference architecture leveraging Microsoft’s BizTalk platform as 
        an ESB and Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services for MDM. We’ll walk through a sample enterprise scenario 
        and the integration challenges it presents as well as the unique benefits this architecture provides to solve 
        these problems.
    </p>
</div>

<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Corey is a hands on Solution Architect with over 15 years of development experience in application, integration and data 
        technologies. Has worked as both a full time employee and contractor for Fortune 500 homebuilding, healthcare and 
        consulting companies working with CRM, financial, HR, marketing and website LOB systems. Broad knowledge across 
        key architecture domains (integration/middleware, app, data, business intelligence) and core Microsoft and IBM technologies
    </p>
</div>

<div class="event-date">February 6th, 2013</div>
<div class="event-title">Claims Based Security with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and Azure Access Control Service (ACS)</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Dan Weinmann, Regional Practice Director - Connected Systems, Neudesic</div>
    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        Role based authorization is a high level approach in determining user rights in performing actions or accessing resources.&nbsp;&nbsp;
        For simple applications with high level authorization needs, role based security may suffice. For more complex authorization requirements, claims based security provides 
        fine grain control on application access and action decisions for a given user. In this presentation you will experience on how to easily federated user 
        authentication on-premise with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and in the cloud with Azure Access Control Service (ACS).  We will easily configure a 
        client application and service to use claims based security based on the Windows Identity Foundation (WIF).  We will walk through on how security tokens are created in our token 
        providers (ADFS and ACS) and how our applications inspects the claims for authorization decisions.
    </p>
</div>

<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Dan has over 15 years of experience in various industries including hospitality, travel, health care, manufacturing, casino gaming, and financial services.  Dan 
        has served as a solution architect for the past 12 years across several projects where he provided the strategic architectural vision that met the functional 
        and non-functional requirements with pure alignment of the business.
    </p>
    <p>
        Dan is passionate in following the Domain Driven Design principles as he has experienced across several projects the value it yields with design discussions, 
        rich modeling, and its alignment with ORMs. Dan is also known for his passion around the Agile methodology.  He first started practicing Agile in 2004 and successfully 
        introduced and implemented it in three organizations prior to joining Neudesic.  Since joining Neudesic Dan has provide training and mentorship of the Agile 
        methodology within the Phoenix region and across several Neudesic client engagements.
    </p>
</div>
<div class="event-date">December 5th, 2012</div>
<div class="event-title">Web Sockets Are Not Just for Web Browsers</div>
<div class="event-presentor">Chris Myers, Senior Consultant, Neudesic</div>
    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>
        When most people hear the term "Web Sockets", they tend to link it solely to a mechanism used by web browsers to 
        communicate with server-side services. This is definitely the most common scenario, but is not the only use case 
        for Web Sockets. In fact, the Web Socket protocol is an extremely viable option in many other scenarios as well. In this 
        presentation, Chris will demonstrate to you how to enable communication between various clients (such as Metro and WPF) 
        and services using Web Sockets. The presentation will cover the setup of Web Sockets via WCF custom bindings and 
        NetHttpBinding. Additionally, this presentation will take a quick lap around the Web Sockets protocol in order to show 
        you the many benefits of the protocol including firewall cooperation and duplex communication.
    </p>
</div>

<div class="event-bio">
    <p>
        Chris Myers is a software developer, based out of Phoenix, Arizona, that specializes in .NET technology.&nbsp;&nbsp;Overall, Chris has 
        more than 7 years of experience working with Microsoft technologies, which includes, but is not limited to, SQL Server, .NET, and 
        BizTalk.  Chris&#8217;s expertise is on just about all areas of MS.NET programming, but is focused more on connected systems technology, 
        such as Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and BizTalk.  He is currently a software consultant 
        for Neudesic.  Chris is also the Vice President of the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group.
    </p>   
    <p>
        You can get in touch with Chris on twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/myerscj" target="_blank">@@myerscj</a>) or can read his thoughts on his blog (<a href="http://bloggedbychris.com/" target="_blank">Blogged by Chris</a>)
    </p> 
</div>
<div class="event-date">November 7th, 2012</div>
<div class="event-title">Introduction to ZeroMQ </div>
<div class="event-presentor"><p>Michael Collins, Architect, Neudesic Product Group</p></div>
    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>The late 1990s was all about the growth of the Java platform. The 2000s introduced us to .NET and led to a re-emergence of Microsoft 
        technologies and platforms. But if the early years of the 201x decade is telling us anything, it&#8217;s that the era of homogeneous systems is at 
        an end. It is more true than ever that one hammer for every nail is no longer going to be the most efficient path. Both Microsoft .NET and 
        Java are great technologies, but in the past two years we have seen Node.js crash the party. Facebook and WordPress use PHP. GitHub and 
        Twitter are or (in Twitter&#8217;s case) were based on Ruby. Back-end processes are typically C, Java, .NET, or Python. This is the decade of 
        heterogeneous systems. In this decade, integration and interoperability are key. A successful system needs to understand how to bridge the 
        differences between languages, threads, processes, and systems. In this presentation, we will look at one possible solution to this problem of 
        integrating heterogeneous systems by building a messaging framework using ZeroMQ. ZeroMQ is an open-source library that supports fast broker-less 
        messaging either on the same computer or with processes distributed over the network. ZeroMQ also has support for most major programming 
        languages in use today. We will explore what ZeroMQ is, how it works, and how to use it to create heterogeneous systems when you are using many 
        different sizes of hammer for your particular problem.</p>
</div>

<div class="event-bio">
    <p>Michael Collins is a product architect and software developer for Neudesic, LLC. Michael currently leads the development of Neudesic&#8217;s Neuron 
        Enterprise Service Bus product that is used to integrate various business systems on the Windows platform. Prior to this role, Michael was the 
        practice director for custom application development for Neudesic in the Desert region. Michael has over 18 years of professional software 
        development experience either as a product developer or software development consultant and has worked in the Phoenix region and the 
        San Francisco Bay Area. Michael has extensive experience developing products for Windows, Unix, and AS/400 platforms. Michael studied 
        Computer Engineering at California State University, Sacramento. Michael has been a frequent presenter at Desert Code Camp since 2009 and 
        is looking forward to presenting at the upcoming Desert Code Camp in November, 2012. When not sitting in front of the computer, Michael 
        lives in Surprise, Arizona, with his wife, son, and 3 crazy dogs, where he practices the art of baking and &#8220;Pastry chef-ing&#8221;, public speaking, 
        reading, and constantly attempts to blog. Michael&#8217;s blog is located at 
        <a href="http://www.michaelfcollins3.me">http://www.michaelfcollins3.me</a>, or you can follow him on Twitter as @@mfcollins3.</p>    
</div>
<br /> 
<div class="event-date">October 3rd, 2012</div>
<div class="event-title">Getting Nerdy with Workflow: Present and Future</div>
<div class="event-presentor"><p>Dave Cliffe, Program Manager - Windows Azure Group / Workflow Team, Microsoft</p></div>
    
<div class="event-abstract">
    <p>Windows Workflow Foundation is already a great way to build extensible apps, model long-running processes, and 
    orchestrate services.  What&#8217;s next?  Workflow Manager builds on the continuum of workflow hosts in .NET (WorkflowApplication, 
    WorkflowServiceHost) to provide a high-scale and multi-tenant environment for running, monitoring, and managing workflows.  
    Interested in learning more?  Come on out to this talk!</p>
</div>

<div class="event-bio">
    <p>Dave Cliffe is a Program Manager in the Windows Azure Group at Microsoft where he works on the Workflow Team (with much persistence).  
    His long-running presence on the team dates back to .NET 3.0/3.5 where his primary activities related to WCF messaging.  Currently, Dave interleaves 
    his time between tracking customer engagements and orchestrating new features.  On the designer canvas of life, Dave is one complex state machine.</p>    
</div>

<p><b>**Registration for this event is now open!  There will be plenty of seats to go round, but please let us know if you're going at <a href="http://pcsug.eventbrite.com/">http://pcsug.eventbrite.com/</a>  Furthermore, tune in to us on Twitter (<a href="http://twitter.com/pcsug">@@pcsug</a>) for updates or to chime in on the conversation**</b></p>

<span style="font-size: medium">
<br /> <strong>
September 5th, 2012
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</strong>  

<strong>
<span style="font-size: small">
What's New in BizTalk360 V 5.0</span></strong><span style="font-size: medium"><p>
    Saravana Kumar, BizTalk MVP and Founder, CTO BizTalk 
    360
    <p>
    Join Saravana as he provides a lap around the capabilities in BizTalk360 such as access policy, governance auditing, monitoring, productivity enhancements, etc. 

In addition, the audience will get an early preview of the new features coming in version 5.0 due in October.

<p>
    Key features added to v5.0:

<ul>
<li>Backup/DR Visualizer</li>
<li>Process monitoring</li>
<li>Support for MBV 12</li>
<li>Integration with HP Operations Manager</li>
<li>REST/Event Viewer notification channels</li>
<li>And much more!</li>

</ul>


<p>
    <span style="font-size: small; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: dimgray; font-style: italic;">
    Saravana Kumar is the Founder and CTO of BizTalk360, enterprise software that helps Microsoft BizTalk server customers efficiently manage their production or any controlled BizTalk environments like UAT. BizTalk360 has grown significantly, having customers across 12 countries. 
<br />
Saravana Kumar is a Microsoft BizTalk server MVP since 2007, blogger, international speaker and active community member in BizTalk Server area. In year 2005, he won the worldwide developer competition conducted by Microsoft for building SQL Server Service Broker Management studio. Saravana has spent the majority of his career working with organisations in UK helping them build their enterprise software solutions.

        
    </span></p>
<p>
    <span style="font-size: small; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: dimgray">
    You can reach Saravana on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/biztalk360">
    @@biztalk360</a></span></p>
<br /> <strong>
August 1st, 2012
<br />
</strong>  

<strong>
<span style="font-size: small">
MythBusters: Is ASP.Net Web API the Best Way to Build RESTFul Services?</span></strong><span style="font-size: medium"><p>
    Brendon Birdoes, Director, Connected Systems Neudesic<p>
    The pace of innovation in application development has increased significantly 
    over the last few years, driven by the web and a multitude of new mobile 
    devices. Surprisingly, to support this innovation, existing web technologies 
    like HTTP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript continue to evolve enabling a whole new 
    breed of connected applications. </p>
<p>
    Continuing on this trend of using existing web technologies, most communication 
    between backend capabilities and mobile/web applications is easily achieved 
    through the HTTP protocol in the form of REST services. Microsoft has followed 
    suit with a new framework to support HTTP and REST services called ASP.Net Web 
    API. So with HTTP and REST becoming so prevalent, is it time to abandon Windows 
    Communication Foundation and default to ASP.NET Web API? This talk explores the 
    strengths and weaknesses of both ASP.NET Web API and WCF, and compares the two 
    messaging technologies for building HTTP/REST services. You might be surprised 
    by the results! </p>
<p>
    <span style="font-size: small; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: dimgray; font-style: italic;">
    Brendon is a Microsoft Certified Professional with over eleven years experience 
    delivering web, thick client and service-oriented solutions. With a range of 
    experience in the Microsoft technology stack, Brendon focuses on integration and 
    service-oriented technologies such as Microsoft BizTalk Server, Windows Server 
    AppFabric, Windows Azure, Azure Service Bus, WCF and WF 4.0. One of his more 
    notable projects was leading the BizTalk development effort for the ESB Toolkit 
    2.0 for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009. Brendon is an active speaker in the 
    Microsoft community, delivering sessions for regional Microsoft events, Desert 
    Code Camp and user groups. Brendon is currently the Phoenix Practice Director 
    for Connected Systems at Neudesic. </span></p>
<p>
    <span style="font-size: small; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: dimgray">
    You can reach Brendon on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/brendonbirdoes">
    @@brendonbirdoes</a></span></p>

<strong>
<br />
June 14th, 2012<span class="error">*</span>
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</strong></span>  

<strong>
<span style="font-size: small">
Unlock your Inner Node.js in the Cloud with Windows Azure
</span>
</strong>
<span style="font-size: medium"><p>
    Glenn Block, Senior Program Manager, Node.js SDK for Windows Azure, Microsoft Corporation<p>


    If I told you that you can build node.js applications in Windows Azure would you believe me? Come to this session and I&#8217;ll show you how. You&#8217;ll see how take those existing node apps and easily deploy them to Windows Azure from any platform. You&#8217;ll see how you can make yours node apps more robust by leveraging Azure services like storage and service bus, all of which are available in our new &#8220;azure&#8221; npm module.  You&#8217;ll also see how to take advantage of cool tools like socket.io for WebSockets, node-inspector for debugging and Cloud9 for an awesome online development experience.</p>
<p>
    <em>Glenn is a PM at Microsoft working on support for node.js in Windows and Azure. Glenn has a breadth of experience both both inside and outside Microsoft developing software solutions for ISVs and the enterprise. Glenn has been a passionate supporter of open source and has been active in involving folks from the community in the development of software at Microsoft. This has included shipping products under open source licenses, as well as assisting other teams looking to do so. Glenn is also a lover of community and a frequent speaker at local and international events and user groups.</em></p>
<p>
    <em>
    <span style="font-size: small; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: dimgray">
    You can reach Glenn on Twitter 
    <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/gblock">@@gblock</a></span></em></p>

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will be held on Thursday, June 14th in lieu of the regularly scheduled meeting.
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Capacity is limited. Registration is required for this event. Please visit 
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<br />
<strong>May 2nd, 2012
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</strong></span>  

<strong>
<span style="font-size: small">
Thinking in Git</span></strong><span style="font-size: medium"><p>
    Rob Richardson, Principal at Richardson &amp; Sons, LLC<p>
    Have you ever looked at Git because it was trendy, but stumbled away dazed? Git 
    isn't your father's source control system, but most of your knowledge of TFS, 
    SVN, or other source control systems transfer over just fine. We'll take your 
    existing knowledge of your Commit / Update VCS and we'll layer in the 
    methodologies, tools, and communities that Git uses. What's the difference 
    between pull and update? Isn't branching and merging dangerous? Can I get 
    colored icons in Windows or Visual Studio? How do I contribute to a GitHub 
    project? We'll graph Git's actions in blocks and compare it to git command 
    results. You'll come away thinking in Git, ready to easily leverage the 
    additional power.</p>
<p>
    <em>Rob Richardson is the Principal at Richardson &amp; Sons, LLC, a custom software 
    development consultancy. Richardson specializes in building enterprise-grade 
    software for small- to medium-sized businesses, delivering the joys of custom 
    software, process automation, and exposing business functions to customers on 
    the web. Rob has a Masters of Science in Computer Information Systems, and over 
    10 years experience in both Web technologies and .NET. Rob is a frequent speaker 
    at user groups, and an active participant in the developer community. You can 
    reach Rob by email at robrich@@robrich.org on his blog at http://robrich.org/.</em></p>
<p>
    <em>
    <span style="font-size: small; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: dimgray">
    You can catch up with Rich on Twitter 
    <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/rob_rich">@@rob_rich</a></span></em></p>

<strong>April</strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: medium"> 4th, 2012</span></strong>
<strong>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small">Building Massively Scalable SOA Solutions for 
Consumer Devices on Windows Azure</span></strong><p style="font-size: medium">
    <span style="font-size: small">
    Ricardo Villalobos, Architect Evangelist, Windows Azure, Microsoft Corporation</span><p>
    The rise of mobile and cloud computing over the last few years has been 
    dramatic. 
</p>
<p>
    Most observers agree that mobile and cloud technologies are inextricably 
    intertwined. Cloud computing and SOA play a crucial role in supporting the 
    exposure, composition and consumption of data across the 4.5 billion mobile 
    devices blanketing the planet. There are a multitude of approaches for making 
    data available across the web using cloud technologies, but one very popular and 
    effective way of exposing information is building web-oriented service layers 
    using RESTful web services, which have gained a lot of popularity among web 
    developers in recent years.
</p>
<p>
    During this session, Ricardo will share specific guidance based on his latest 
    article on <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh781021.aspx">MSDN 
    Magazinee</a on how to build and deploy a solution based on this web-oriented 
    architecture patterns to Windows Azure. In addition, Ricardo will walkthrough 
    specific code samples covering patterns for integrating client applications on 
    the iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 7 platform.
</p>
<p>
    <em>Ricardo is a seasoned software architect, with over 15 years of experience 
    designing and creating applications for companies in the Supply Chain Management 
    industry, particularly wholesale distributors and manufacturers. Holding 
    different Microsoft certifications, as well as an MBA in Supply Chain Management 
    from the University of Dallas, he recently joined Microsoft as a Windows Azure 
    Architect Evangelist, helping companies adopt this platform and take advantage 
    of the benefits that cloud computing has brought to the industry. When he is not 
    in front of a computer, Ricardo likes to ride his mountain bike and play tennis 
    during the summer, while improving his skiing skills during the winter in 
    beautiful Colorado. </em>
</p>
<p>
    <span style="font-size: medium"><em>
    <span style="font-size: small; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: dimgray">
    You can catch up with Ricardo on Twitter
    <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/ricvilla"><span style="font-style:normal">
    @@ricvilla</span></a></span></em><strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<br />
March 7th, 2012<br />
</strong></span><strong><span style="font-size: small">Catching Up with Neuron ESB 
<br />
</span></strong>
<p style="font-size: medium">
    <span style="font-size: small">
    Marty Wasznicky, General Manager, Neudesic Neuron Enterprise Service Bus
        </span>

    <p>
    Neuron ESB is an Enterprise Service Bus built entirely on the Microsoft Platform for .NET developers.  
    Neuron ESB offers unique and competitive integration and service capabilities over those offered by most legacy vendors today, and complements and/or extends the current capabilities offered by the Microsoft platform.

    <p>
        
    Nearing it's 5th major release, come learn how Neuron ESB compliments existing BizTalk workloads by providing a low-latency, high-throughput approach to common messaging scenarios, enabling seamless on-premise messaging and integration while accelerating SOA efforts within the enterprise and beyond with a minimal learning curve compared to traditional, big-iron stacks.

    <p>
        You will also learn about the important role Neuron ESB plays bridging Azure Cloud capabilities like Azure Service Bus and Azure Access Control Service with on-premise systems and applications for delivering innovative hybrid solutions today.

    <p>
        Get a sneak peak at the ucpoming features that will be released very soon, including:

    <ul>

    <li>Multi Instance host support</li>
<li>New FTP/FTPS Adapter</li>
<li>Excel to XML parsing</li>
<li>For and While Looping process steps</li>
<li>Zip/Unzip process step</li>
<li>Service Behaviors and Azure Integration</li>
<li>Operational Support using Performance Counters and WMI events</li>
<li>New Database Structure and Persistence for Statistics</li>
<li>Exception Management Patterns</li>
<li>Neuron Reporting Querying</li>
<li>REST to SOAP Mediation and delegation</li>
<li>ODBC Adapter for Oracle integration</li>
<li>Using Environmental variables for Deployment</li>
<li>Creating custom process steps</li>
<li>Creating custom adapters</li>
</ul>

    <span style="font-size: small">Attendees will recieve a complimentary evaluation license that will enable you to download the bits and apply what you've learned right away.
    <br />
    <br />
    <em>Marty Wasznicky serves as General Manager of Neudesic&#8217;s Neuron 
Enterprise Service Bus Product, bringing with him over 20 years of experience in 
the software development industry. Marty joined Neudesic after 6 years as a 
Regional Program Manager at Microsoft. At Microsoft, Marty worked in the 
Connected Systems Division where his responsibilities ranged from building out 
Microsoft&#8217;s BizTalk Server product integration business, managing a team of 
SOA/ESB/BPM field specialists, building strategic partner alliances, as well as 
collaborating on architecture and features for Microsoft&#8217;s distributed 
technologies. Marty also led the vision, development and architecture of the 
Microsoft&#8217;s Enterprise Service Bus Guidance. Marty has published nearly a dozen 
whitepapers and articles on various technologies, was a contributing author for 
the Pro BizTalk 2006 book and currently sits on the Corporate Advisory Board for 
SOA Software, a leading provider of SOA Governance solutions.</em></span>
    </p>

<strong><span style="font-size: medium">February 1st, 2012</span></strong>
<br />
    <strong><span style="font-size: small">A Lap Around WebSockets in the .NET 4.5 Developer Preview
</span> </strong>
<p style="font-size: medium">
    <span style="font-size: small">
    Rick G. Garibay, Connected Systems MVP and GM, Connected Systems Practice at Neudesic
    </span>
        <p>
        Websockets bring an important new capability to web and non-web applications 
            by providing a fully duplex, bi-direction communication channel between the 
            client and service(s) that is firewall friendly.
        As one of the most highly anticipated features of HTML5, WebSockets is getting very close to final draft status with the IETF and W3C 
            and major platforms and browsers are investing in in supporting this exciting 
            new capability.<p>
        Join Rick G. Garibay, Connected Systems MVP for a look at WebSocket support in 
        the .NET 4.5 Developer Preview. Rick will cover the options for taking advantage 
        of WebSockets using ASP.NET and WCF, as well as demonstrate a number of helper 
        APIs provided by the Microsoft.WebSockets NuGet package that make working with 
        WebSockets very simple. In addition, Rick will cover hosting and deployment 
        options, including self-hosting on Windows 8 and IIS 8.<p>
    With over 12 years&#8217; experience delivering solutions on the Microsoft platform 
    across industry sectors, Rick is a developer, architect, speaker and author on 
    distributed .NET technologies and is the General Manager of the Connected 
    Systems Practice at Neudesic. Rick specializes in distributed technologies such 
    as Microsoft .NET, Windows Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation, 
    Windows Server AppFabric, and Windows Azure to deliver business value and drive 
    revenue while reducing operational costs. Rick serves as a member of the 
    Microsoft Application Platform Partner Advisory Council as well as an advisor to 
    Microsoft as a long-time member of the Business Platform and Azure Technology 
    Advisors group. As a five-time Microsoft Connected Systems MVP, Rick is an 
    active speaker, writer and passionate community advocate in the national .NET 
    community. Rick is the President and Co-Founder of the Phoenix Connected Systems 
    User Group, celebrating three years in operation. Recent presentations include 
    talks at the Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference in Redmond, WA, 
    Microsoft TechEd in New Orleans, LA, Desert Code Camp, and numerous Microsoft 
    roadshow events throughout North America. Rick is a frequent contributor to 
    industry publications such as CODE Magazine and maintains a technical blog 
    focused on Microsoft distributed technologies at http://www.rickgaribay.net<p style="font-size: medium">
    </br/>
    <strong>January 4th, 2012</strong>
        <br />
            <strong><span style="font-size: small">Getting started with Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging 
</span> </strong>
<p style="font-size: medium">
    <span style="font-size: small">
    Chris Ross, Consultant, Neudesic
    </span>
    <p>
        With the recent simplification of Microsoft&#8217;s Cloud pricing model Windows Azure 
        is more appealing than ever to companies who are looking for solutions to 
        integrating systems with lightweight capabilities like WCF behind the firewall 
        without the requirement of a significant middleware footprint within the 
        organization. With the proliferation of hybrid computing as an on-ramp to cloud, 
        as a developer it makes sense to start early on ramping up on Azure Service Bus 
        and becoming familiar with the capabilities it has to offer.
    <p>
        In this presentation, Chris will demonstrate how to write messages to the Azure 
        Service Bus using WCF SOAP, WCF REST and the .NET API. After the three messages 
        are written to the messaging fabric, they will then be consumed using the same 
        APIs and any combination thereof. In addition, we will delve into the Azure 
        Dashboard to become more familiar with how to manage queues, endpoints and 
        credentials.
    <p>
        <em>Christopher Ross is a Connected Systems consultant with Neudesic, with 
    experience in delivering BizTalk and WCF solutions and more recently Windows 
    Azure solutions to clients across industry sectors including transportation and 
    healthcare. He has also been a regular presenter at Desert Code Camp presenting 
    on topics ranging from Parallel Programming in .NET to REST services. Catch up 
    with Chris at arizonacoder.net.</em>
    <p style="font-size: medium">
        <strong>December 7th, 2011</strong><br />
    <span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">Manage your BizTalk Server environment efficiently using BizTalk360</span><p style="font-size: medium">
    <span style="font-size: small; ">Saravana Kumar, CTO BizTalk 360</span>
    <br />
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        Join Saravana Kumar, BizTalk Server MVP and CTO of BizTalk 360 as he showcases BizTalk 360.
 
BizTalk 360 is a web based (Silverlight RIA) application primarily designed for supporting and monitoring Microsoft BizTalk Server environments from anywhere in the world provided you have a browser and an internet connection. BizTalk 360 addresses some of the most common challenges organizations face in running the day to day operations of a BizTalk environment. 
        </span>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        Some key capabilities of BizTalk360 include:

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        &#8226;	Fine grained authorization

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        &#8226;	Governance/Audit 

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        &#8226;	Proactive Alerting/Notification capabilities

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        &#8226;	Graphical Message Flow Viewer for Tracking data

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        &#8226;	Various dashboards (Environment, Application, BizTalk Server, SQL Server, Host etc) 

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        &#8226;	Advanced Event Viewer

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        &#8226;	Integrated BAM Portal

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        &#8226;	Dynamic topology diagram

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        &#8226;	Message Box Viewer (MBV) integration

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        &#8226;	Knowledge base repository

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">
        We&#8217;ll cover these and other features that makes BizTalk 360 a must have extension to managing your Microsoft BizTalk Server environments. 
 
Also, stay tuned for some great give-a-ways!

        </span>
    </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    <i>Saravana Kumar is a Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server since 2007, blogger (<a 
        href="http://digitaldeposit.net/saravana" target="_blank">http://digitaldeposit.net/saravana</a>), 
    and international speaker. He has experienced nearly a decade of real-world use 
    of Microsoft BizTalk Server at companies big and small. He has written white 
    papers and articles for various publications including MSDN and Wrox. In year 
    2005 he won the Connected Systems Developer competition for designing and 
    building SQL Service Broker Management Studio. He is also the founder of the 2 
    famous BizTalk community sites <a href="http://www.biztalk247.com" 
        target="_blank">http://www.biztalk247.com</a> and
    <a href="http://blogdoc.biztalk247.com" target="_blank">
    http://blogdoc.biztalk247.com</a>.</i><o:p></o:p></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        &nbsp;</p>
<p style="font-size: medium">
<strong>November 2nd</strong>
<br />
        
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
Improving Business Agility and Customer Satisfaction with Business Activity Monitoring</span>
    <p style="font-size: medium">
        <span style="font-size: small; ">Madhukar Konda, Senior Consultant, Connected Systems, Neudesic, LLC</span>
    <br />
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provides real-time business intelligence by capturing data as it flows through a business system.  The most critical factor for the success of any business is getting the right information at the right time. The ease of information access can determine the fate of business deals and partnerships.  By using BAM, you can monitor a business process in real time and generate alerts when the business process needs human intervention.  BAM also provides end-to-end visibility into the business process for both technical and non-technical users on a near real-time basis.<span style="font-size: small">Madhukar Konda is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in BizTalk Server 2004/2006/2006 R2; currently working as a Senior Consultant within the Connected Systems practice at Neudesic.</span>
    </p>
</p>

<p style="font-size: medium">
<strong>October 5th, 2011</strong>
<br />
    <span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">Utilizing AppFabric Caching Services On-Premise and Beyond to Optimize Performance</span><p style="font-size: medium">
    <span style="font-size: small; ">Chris Meyers, Software Engineer, Cable One</span>
    <br />
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">Join Chris on October 5, 2011 to learn more about how to take advantage of the many great features provided by Windows Server and Windows Azure AppFabric Caching.<span style="font-size: small">In an attempt to reduce the response time of mid-tier services and web applications, enterprises often spend large sums of money on infrastructure to optimize hardware and networks.  Often times, upgrading database processing power and improving network performance is seen as the only option.  However, research has proven that there are often more economically viable solutions.  Using AppFabric Caching, you can implement a very cost effective and easy to configure alternative that will have an immediate and visible impact to your applications and services.</span>
    </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">Windows Server AppFabric Caching is extremely simple to configure and has many great payoffs.  Research done by Microsoft and other research organizations has shown that implementing Windows Server AppFabric Cache can reduce the response time of your mid-tier services to less than 1/10 the current IO latency.  Furthermore, caching can help to reduce expensive database calls and help reduce overall traffic on your company's network leading to better performance and optimized deployment of your costly infrastructure assets.</span>
    </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">What&#8217;s more, the same APIs provided by Windows Server AppFabric Caching are supported on Windows Azure as part of the Azure AppFabric Caching Service. Regardless of whether you decide to store the cached data on-premise, in the cloud, or both for hybrid scenarios, AppFabric has a solution for you.</span>
    </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">Chris Myers is a Software Engineer working out of the Phoenix area.  For over 5 years, he has utilized the .NET framework to build robust applications and web services.  He takes a particular interest in mid-tier technologies and is adept at integrating various mid-tier and underlying platforms in order to create enterprise services.</span>
    </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size: small">Chris is currently working for Cable One, Inc. which is one of the top largest cable internet service providers (ISP) in the U.S.  Using .NET and other Microsoft technologies, he has helped Cable One integrate a wide range of platforms such as Cisco devices, billing systems, and cable modem provisioning systems.</span>
    </p>
</p>


<p style="font-size: medium">
<strong>August 3rd, 2011</strong>
<br />
    <span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">Securing WPF Applications with Claims: Modernly Securing a Real-World Commercial Product</span>

    <p style="font-size: medium">
        <span style="font-size: small">Todd Sussman,<strong> </strong>Technical Director for Retail and Hospitality at Neudeisc

    <p class="MsoNormal">
        Translating business requirements into a technical implementation is one of the key roles that every developer plays. Often, there are a myriad of options of how to go about addressing the problem and security is no exception. In fact, securing your applications is one of the most important yet often overlooked aspects of professional software development.
        small">Worse, too often, companies re-invent the wheel when it comes to security to the great risk and detriment of their customers (internal or otherwise).  Applications are coupled to Active Directory, or some internal security mechanism that immediately limits the reach of your software and introduces significant management overhead. This might be fine when you are building applications for yourself, but when you are building commercial applications that will be sold in a B2B manner,  you will want to give your customers the flexibility of deciding how they want to manage security:  Should it be Single Sign On, are they using Active Directory, do they want to allow users to use the same username and password as they do for MSN, Facebook or Google?  Claims- based security attempts to address these questions and has been very successful on the Internet,  but it still falls short when it comes to securing a smart client.</span>
</p>
<p style="font-size: medium">
    <span style="font-size: small">Join Todd Sussman, as he presents a real-world perspective on the challenges and possible solutions he faced when addressing this requirement for a major commercial property management suite and ultimately what direction the customer went with.  The initial discussion will be followed by a demonstration of how to secure WPF applications with claims being served by Microsoft&#8217;s STS ADFSv2.     </p>
<p style="font-size: medium">
    <span style="font-size: small"Todd Sussman is the Technical Director for Retail and Hospitality at Neudeisc.  Todd has extensive experience in the Connected Systems world where he has served as Principal and Practice Lead, and has led the delivery of enterprise solutions based on WCF and BizTalk as well as other middleware tools. Todd continues to leverage the power of integration to make the business outcomes of his most exclusive clients a reality.</span>
    <br />
</p>
</p>

<p style="font-size: medium">
<strong>July 6th, 2011</strong>
<br />
    <span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">Composing Enterprise Business Solutions with Server AppFabric, Windows Azure 
    and Azure AppFabric</span>

    <p style="font-size: medium">
        <span style="font-size: small">Rick G. Garibay, MVP Connected Systems and GM, Connected Systems Practice at Neudesic</span>

    <p class="MsoNormal">
        AppFabric provides a comprehensive middleware platform for developing, deploying 
        and managing applications both on premise and in the cloud. Learn how AppFabric 
        as a platform can benefit your approach to building and supporting composite 
        application services via enhanced lifetime management, tracking, persistence of 
        long-running workflow services and caching for performance optimization while 
        transcending traditional trust boundaries and enabling the hybrid enterprise. In 
        this talk, we&#8217;ll implement a restaurant reservation system that will include a 
        WF 4 Workflow Service running on-premise on Server AppFabric which in addition 
        to managing its own custom activities, will compose services deployed in the 
        Windows Azure cloud as well as endpoints behind the firewall enabling a true 
        hybrid solution architecture today that will put you in the best position to 
        take advantage of what AppFabric will offer in the not so distant future. <o:p></o:p>
</p>
<p style="font-size: medium">
    <span style="font-size: small">With over 12 years experience delivering 
    solutions on the Microsoft platform in various industry sectors, Rick is a 
    developer, architect, speaker and author on distributed .NET technologies and is 
    the General Manager of the National Connected Systems practice at Neudesic.
    </span>
    </p>
<p style="font-size: medium">
    <span style="font-size: small">Rick focuses on helping enterprise clients 
    realize their full potential by designing business solutions that drive 
    transparency, streamline business processes and enhance the productivity of 
    organizations by combining modern, iterative software engineering methodologies 
    with the capabilities of the Microsoft Platform to help close the value gap. 
    Rick specializes in cloud and distributed technologies such as Microsoft .NET, 
    Windows Communication Foundation, Workflow Foundation, AppFabric and Windows 
    Azure to deliver business value and drive revenue while reducing operational 
    costs. </span>
    </p>
<p style="font-size: medium">
    <span style="font-size: small">Rick is an active speaker, writer and passionate 
    community advocate in the national .NET community. Rick is the President and 
    Co-Founder of the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group. Recent presentations 
    include the 2009 Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference in Redmond, WA, 
    and his numerous articles on .NET technology can be found in-print and online in 
    publications such as CODE Magazine, DevX and his personal blog at 
    http://rickgaribay.net. Rick is a proud Microsoft Most Valuable Professional 
    (MVP) an has been awarded the MVP designation for Connected Systems for four 
    years in a row. </span>
    <br />
</p>
    </p>
<p style="font-size: medium">
    <b>June 1st, 2011 </b>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    Building Real World Workflow Services
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Brendon Birdoes, Director, Connected Systems Practice, Neudesic
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is critical component of the AppFabric platform that is key to Microsoft&#8217;s next generation Microsoft integration and SOA platform strategy. Understanding how to build composite applications orchestrated with workflow services using WF and WCF 4.0 will be a critical skill for all developers as the shift in the platform occurs. WF 4.0 is the latest iteration of WF introduced in .Net 4.0 and moves away from code behind to extend workflows among other improvements. To accomplish this a more robust model was introduced for workflow activities along with more capable custom activity creation process. This session will explore some of the more interesting activities shipped with .Net 4.0 and also build out simple and advanced custom activities using a workflow service.   The demo is based on real world solutions and will show how to apply solid testing practices using WF Activities.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
With nearly 12 years' experience delivering solutions on the Microsoft platform in various industry sectors, Rick is a developer, architect, speaker and author on distributed .NET technologies and is a Solutions Architect at Neudesic.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
Brendon is a Microsoft Certified Professional with over ten years experience delivering web, smart client and service oriented applications. With a range of experience in the Microsoft technology stack, Brendon focuses on integration and service oriented technologies such as Microsoft BizTalk Server, Windows Server AppFabric, WCF 4.0 and WF 4.0. One of his more notable projects recently was leading the BizTalk development effort for the ESB Toolkit 2.0 for Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009. He is an active speaker in the Microsoft community, delivering sessions for regional Microsoft events, desert code camp and user groups. Brendon is currently the Phoenix Practice Director for Connected Systems at Neudesic.
</p>
</p>

<p style="font-size: medium">
<b>May 4th, 2011 </b>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    Create "Badges" for your site with WCF, JSON, and jQuery
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Joseph Guadagno is the President of the Southeast Valley .NET User Group (SEVDNUG)
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Join Joe Guadagno as he shares his insights and experience creating a "badge" system based on the success of the Desert Code Camp badges (eg http://apr2011.desertcodecamp.com/badge). You&#8217;ll learn how you can use badges to get the word out for your events or promotions using Windows Communication Foundation, JSON and jQuery. 
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Joe has also been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from Microsoft for the last 3 years. Joe serves on the INETA Board of Directors as President and is also the organizer of Desert Code Camp. 
</p>
Joseph Guadagno is the President of the Southeast Valley .NET User Group (SEVDNUG). Joe has also been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from Microsoft for the last two years. Joe serves on the INETA Board of Directors as Director of Marketing. Joe is also the organizer of Desert Code Camp.
<p class="MsoNormal">
    <br />
    <a href="http://josephguadagno.net">http://josephguadagno.net</a>

    <br />
    <a href="http://desertcodecamp.com">http://desertcodecamp.com</a>
    <br />
    <a href="http://sevdnug.org">http://sevdnug.org</a>
    <br />
    <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/jguadagno">@@jguadagno</a>
    <br />

    <a href="mailto:jguadagno@sevdnug.org">jguadagno@@sevdnug.org</a>
</p>
</p>






<p style="font-size: medium">
<b>April 6th, 2011 </b>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    Leveraging ASP.NET MVC3 as a RESTful Service Platform
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Adam Mokan, Independent Developer <a href="http://twitter.com/adammokan" target="_blank">@@adammokan</a>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Have you ever found yourself in a scenario where WCF may be overkill for your needs or your team may not be up-to-speed on the popular, yet often misunderstood stack in the .NET toolbox? Given the rise of RESTful API&#8217;s and more services exchanging the popular JSON format than ever before, the ASP.NET MVC framework can provide a simple and ideal &#8220;poor man&#8217;s web service&#8221; platform. In this session, we will look at using MVC controllers as endpoints for receiving JSON as well as returning data in JSON, XML, and other common formats. With some of the new features in MVC3, such as the JsonValueProviderFactory, controllers receiving JSON data can automatically map the JSON to your model without the overhead of writing custom model binders or other customizations needed in the past. We will also look at returning JSON from &#8220;view less&#8221; controllers for consumption in other systems utilizing clean URL routing patterns and other features to give your consumers a simple integration point to work with. I will provide an overview on asynchronous and session-less controllers; Which, in some cases, may give you some performance gains and more scalability. The overall goal is to give you, as a developer, the knowledge to make a decision between WCF for certain scenarios or going with MVC. Pros and cons of both approaches will be discussed as well as use cases.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Adam is a developer based out of Chandler, Arizona with over a dozen years of professional experience that ranges from web development, database design, and system architecture. Adam began his professional career building a SaaS (&#8220;Software as a Service&#8221;) platform/information system in metro-Detroit aimed at global manufacturing companies. During this time, he encountered various cases where he had to exchange data with 3rd-party ERP and CRM systems across nearly every technology stack.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Mostly working in the Microsoft stack of development technology, Adam is a constant tinkerer with new tools and technology, loves speaking and sharing knowledge with others, and always trying to improve his skills and those around him. He also is the founder of Dead Cactus Labs LLC, a start-up focused on developing creative applications for mobile/embedded platforms as well as electronics for music, art, and physical computing.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    You can find Adam&#8217;s blog at <a href="http://adammokan.com" target="_blank">http://adammokan.com</a>
</p>
</p>



<p style="font-size: medium">
<b>March 2nd, 2011 </b>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    Let&#8217;s REST with WCF
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Chad Watson, Consultant Neudesic
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Join Chad Watson for a look at what is new with the WCF Futures release.  In this session, we&#8217;ll explore RESTful concepts with WCF and you&#8217;ll learn how can you expose your information in a RESTful manner and how the new futures release of the WCF toolkit can benefit you.  In addition, you&#8217;ll learn how concepts such as processors and IQueryable interfaces can help you expose your data in many formats in addition to XML.  Time permitting, we&#8217;ll event take a look into exposing WCF services for jQuery.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
Chad Watson is a software architect with over 7 years of experience designing and creating custom applications for many different large corporations.  Coming from a background of building custom applications he understands and embraces the need to allow software the capabilities of being able to connect not just internally but allow them to expose and consume external data.    When he is not hunting and pecking at a keyboard in an attempt to manufacture some functional code he enjoys playing golf and basketball.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
If you are interested in distributed application development, connected technologies such as WCF, WF, BizTalk or SOA in general, this is a perfect opportunity to come meet our members and contribute to the discussion.
 
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<p style="font-size: medium">
<b>February 2nd, 2011 </b>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    Designing, building and deploying Windows Azure service-oriented applications using Visual Studio 2010
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Ricardo Villalobos, Windows Azure Architect Evangelist
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Writing applications and services for the cloud requires the understanding of specific patterns and techniques that ensure reliability, performance, and scalability. During this presentation you will learn how Visual Studio 2010 can help you design, build, and deploy this type of solutions to Windows Azure - Microsoft's development platform for the cloud -; taking advantage of the tools and libraries included with version 1.3 of the Windows Azure SDK.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
Ricardo is a seasoned software architect, with over 15 years of experience designing and creating applications for companies in the Supply Chain Management industry, particularly wholesale distributors and manufacturers. Holding different Microsoft certifications, as well as an MBA in Supply Chain Management from the University of Dallas, he recently joined Microsoft as a Windows Azure Architect Evangelist, helping companies adopt this platform and take advantage of the benefits that cloud computing has brought to the industry. When he is not in front of a computer, Ricardo likes to ride his mountain bike and play tennis during the summer, while improving his skiing skills during the winter in beautiful Colorado.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
If you are interested in distributed application development, connected technologies such as WCF, WF, BizTalk or SOA in general, this is a perfect opportunity to come meet our members and contribute to the discussion.
 
</p>
</p>
<p style="font-size: medium">
<b>January 5th,  2011 </b>
<br />

<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    Using WCF RIA Services in Silverlight Applications
</span>
    
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Dan Wahlin, Founder The Wahlin Group, MVP 
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Silverlight and AJAX technologies provide a nice set of features that can be used to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) but with the number of data access techniques available it can be difficult to know which one to choose. In this session, Dan Wahlin will discuss Microsoft's RIA Services framework and demonstrate how it can be used to simplify n-tier architectures and provide a consistent way to access, validate and modify data in Silverlight applications. Topics covered include creating a domain service, sharing data validation rules across projects, making asynchronous calls using the domain context, object tracking features as well as how to create ORM-neutral domain service classes.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">

    Dan Wahlin founded The Wahlin Group (http://www.TheWahlinGroup.com) which specializes in .NET, Silverlight and SharePoint consulting as well as onsite and online training solutions. He has been awarded Microsoft's MVP award for ASP.NET, Connected Systems and Silverlight. Dan is on the INETA Speaker's Bureau, speaks at conferences and user groups around the world and has written several books on .NET such as Professional Silverlight Development, Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX, ASP.NET MVP Hacks and Tips and XML for ASP.NET Developers.  Dan blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin and writes regular columns for Dr. Dobbs and DevConnectionsPro Magazines.
</p>
</p>



<p style="font-size: medium">
<b>December 1st,  2010 </b>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    Introduce yourself to the O
</span>

    
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Joseph Guadagno is the President of the Southeast Valley .NET User Group (SEVDNUG)
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    In this session Joe will introduce OData and leave you with a solid understanding of what it is and how it works.  You&#8217;ll learn how to take an already existing database using Entity Framework and expose it to the world (or those you want) using OData.  Time permitting, we will also cover consuming and using OData feeds.

</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Joseph Guadagno is the President of the Southeast Valley .NET User Group (SEVDNUG). Joe has also been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from Microsoft for the last two years. Joe serves on the INETA Board of Directors as Director of Marketing. Joe is also the organizer of Desert Code Camp.
    <br />
    <a href="http://josephguadagno.net">http://josephguadagno.net</a>

    <br />
    <a href="http://desertcodecamp.com">http://desertcodecamp.com</a>
    <br />
    <a href="http://sevdnug.org">http://sevdnug.org</a>
    <br />
    <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/jguadagno">@@jguadagno</a>
    <br />

    <a href="mailto:jguadagno@sevdnug.org">jguadagno@@sevdnug.org</a>
</p>
</p>

<p style="font-size: medium">
<b>November 3rd,  2010 </b>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    Business Connectivity Services in Sharepoint 2010
</span>

    
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Brad Gronek, Senior Consultant, Custom App Dev Practice | Neudesic 
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Sharepoint 2010 represents a significant upgrade in the development and integration experience with an enhanced API, a new Visual Studio toolkit and better support for external data throughout the Sharepoint stack.  This talk will provide a quick tour through Sharepoint BCS as well as a demonstration of its use as a rapid application development platform.  
</p>
 
<p class="MsoNormal">
If you are interested in distributed application development, connected technologies such as WCF, WF, BizTalk or SOA in general, this is a perfect opportunity to come meet our members and contribute to the discussion.
 
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Brad is a business technology and custom software development consultant with 2 years experience leading and contributing to development efforts for the largest and the smallest of clients.  Prior to his current career, Brad has a 'prior life' as a C.P.A. in the banking technology industries. 
</p>

</p>


<p style="font-size: medium">
<b>October 6th,  2010 </b>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    (Not your Father's) Internet Security  
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Michael Collins, Regional Practice Director, Custom App Dev Practice | Neudesic 
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    In the Web 2.0 world, users are demanding better ways of using web sites. Users no longer want to create new accounts on each web site that they visit and remember hundreds of user accounts and passwords. Web sites are stepping up to accommodate users by supporting federated authentication mechanisms and honoring user accounts of other trusted services. In this presentation, we&#8217;ll explore several mechanisms of user authentication for web sites and web services. We&#8217;ll explore integration with Windows Live ID, CardSpace InfoCards, OpenID, and other services to authenticate users with web sites, and OAuth for authentication with web services.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
Michael Collins is a Regional Practice Director for Neudesic specializing in custom application development on the Windows platform. Michael has been developing software professionally since 1994. Before joining Neudesic, Michael developed applications for healthcare, financial services, and retain businesses for companies including Kaiser, NONSTOP Solutions, PeopleSoft, and Lippincott-Raven Publishers. In late 2009, Michael started ImaginaryRealities, LLC, to publish custom applications that he is developing and releasing starting in 2010.
</p>
</p>



<p style="font-size: medium">
<b>September 9th,  2010 </b>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    Getting Started with StreamInsight and Complex Event Processing Applications  
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Chris Coneybeer
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Today we find our systems and users need to be able to quickly collect, analyze, and act upon data that is being streamed from an unlimited number of devices or systems in our enterprises. Frequently, this raw data is being collected from many different sources such as sensors on production lines, usage events from a website, or even just consumption data from a power meter. Generally this raw data goes through a time consuming process of collection, aggregation, and then querying before it can be used for business process decisions. 
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
SteamInsight is a new platform included with SQL Server 2008 R2 that is used to build Complex Event Processing (CEP) applications that are used to monitor these raw data streams. Using StreamInisght your applications will have the ability to analyze, correlate, and use the data contained in streams while it is in-flight. This is done by creating adapters that are responsible for monitoring streams and then writing queries against the adapters. 
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
During this session we will discuss what StreamInsight is, what stories it addresses in system architectures, and then we will build a CEP application using StreamInsight. Included in the demos will be building input adapters for data streams, querying and consuming events from adapters, debugging StreamInsight applications, and deployment methods for your CEP application.  
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chris Coneybeer is a C#/SQL developer with over 10 years of development experience working with Microsoft stack. Currently Chris works as an independent developer for small business and working in the banking industry as a contractor. Since his move the Phoenix area Chris has discovered the value and rich experience that community provides by sharing ideas and having open discussions. Chris enjoys working on connected systems and finding ways to leverage data for technology workers.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During the years he has worked with VB6, VB.NET, C#.NET, ASP/ASP.NET, AJAX, XML, WCF, SSRS, SSIS,  T-SQL,  and other assorted technologies.  His current interests include WCF, EF and WF improvements in the 4.0 framework along with SQL2008R2.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chris is the Vice-President of the <a href="http://www.sevdnug.org/Home.aspx" target="_blank">Southeast Valley .NET User Group (SEVDNUG)</a>  in Chandler Arizona which supports local .NET developers through regular meetings and events. Recently he also gotten more involved with the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group(PCSUG) as Membership Director and is working with the leadership to grow the reach of the group.</p>
    
</p>

<p style="font-size: medium">
<b>August 12th,  2010 </b>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    Introducing Windows Server AppFabric 
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Rick Garibay, Solutions Architect, Enterprise Solutions Group | Neudesic
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Built on the proven Windows Server and .NET platform, Windows Server AppFabric provides a set of application services focused on improving the speed, scale, and management of Web, composite, and enterprise applications. Whether you are a developer or an IT Pro, come learn how Windows Server AppFabric can help you leverage today&#8217;s skills and technology investments to achieve these benefits. In addition, Rick will cover the distributed caching technology and pre-built management and monitoring infrastructure that can be easily implemented using familiar .NET skills.   
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
With nearly 12 years' experience delivering solutions on the Microsoft platform in various industry sectors, Rick is a developer, architect, speaker and author on distributed .NET technologies and is a Solutions Architect at Neudesic.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
Rick focuses on helping enterprise clients realize their full potential by designing business solutions that drive transparency, streamline business processes and enhance the productivity of organizations by combining modern, iterative software engineering methodologies with the capabilities of the Microsoft Platform to help close the value gap.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
Rick specializes in cloud and distributed technologies such as Microsoft .NET, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Server AppFabric and Windows Azure to deliver business value and drive revenue while reducing operational costs.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
Rick is an active speaker, writer and passionate community advocate in the national .NET community. Rick is the President and Co-Founder of the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group. Recent presentations include the 2009 Microsoft SOA and Business Process Conference in Redmond, WA, and his numerous articles on .NET technology can be found in-print and online in publications such as CODE Magazine, DevX and his personal blog at http://rickgaribay.net. 
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
Rick is a proud Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) an has been awarded the MVP designation for Connected Systems for three years in a row.

</p>
</p>
    


<p style="font-size: medium">
<b>July 8th,  2010 </b>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">
    Claims-based and federated security scenarios 
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Todd Sussman, Practice Lead, Connected Systems | Neudesic
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Claims-based and federated security scenarios are gaining wider popularity as platform tools 
    evolve to simplify the developer experience in this space. Adopting a claims-based and 
    federated security model is beneficial to WCF applications for many reasons. Claims-based 
    security decouples services from the mode of authentication so that they aren't impacted if 
    credential requirements change or if new types are supported; it also provides a more flexible 
    and more granular artifact for authorization.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Please Join Todd Sussman, a principal consultant and regional practice director at Neudesic as 
    he gives you an introduction to Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) and how it can be leveraged 
    to help secure your services and take advantage of this emerging technology.
</p>
<p>
    Todd specializes in distributed technologies and frameworks such as Microsoft .NET, Windows Communication Foundation, as well as BizTalk server.
</p>


    <p style="font-size: medium">
        <b>May</b><br />
        <span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">Adventures of a Commercial 
        .NET ESB </span>
    <p>
        Christian Martinez, Field Engineer, Neuron ESB | 
                    Neudesic<p>
        Customers building on 
        the Microsoft platform often try to write their own ESB, use open source 
        solutions or try to leverage systems not designed to be an ESB as their ESB 
        infrastructure. Why? It&#8217;s infrastructure. Time should be spent on the problem 
        domain as much as possible and not building the plumbing.
    <p>
        Every day millions of dollars flow through Neuron ESB in high value and mission 
        critical messaging scenarios. This presentation will describe the architecture 
        behind several real world deployments and the lessons learned. Neuron ESB and 
        the concepts it was built on will be presented along with its API and a quick 
        demonstration of using Neuron as a services intermediary. 
    <p>
        Christian Martinez is 
        a member of Neudesic&#8217;s Product team and works with customers who are interested 
        in Neuron ESB. His Microsoft experience includes consulting, managing a 
        Microsoft Practice for a GSI, serving as a BizTalk VTS, and contributing to the 
        ESB Guidance. Along with this Microsoft experience, Christian has also worked 
        for several years in the open source world, Java enterprise world, as an 
        independent consultant and as a member of commercial product teams as a 
        developer.<p style="font-size: medium">
        <b>April</b><br />
        <b><span style="font-size: small">Making Software + Services Tenable with the 
        Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus</span></b><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold"> </span>
    <p>
        Rick G. Garibay, Solutions Architect | 
                    Neudesic<p>
        The cloud is here. No longer just an interesting future technology, it is one 
        that developers, architects and CXOs must leverage if they want to remain 
        competitive and fiscally responsible. How do organizations maximize their 
        investments in current on-premise assets while taking advantage of the dramatic 
        cost and reliability benefits that the cloud offers? More importantly, how can 
        organizations bridge on-premise applications with new capabilities in the cloud 
        or shatter boundaries and limitiations that today greatly inhibit composing 
        business processes across private clouds?
    <p>
        In this session, you&#8217;ll understand the problem domain that software + services 
        forces us to reason about and how the AppFabric Service Bus can help. You&#8217;ll 
        learn how to expose your on-premise applications and services through firewalls, 
        NAT gateways, and other problematic network boundaries while leveraging the WCF 
        skills you already have.
    <p style="font-size: small">
        With nearly 12 years experience delivering solutions on the Microsoft platform 
        in various industry sectors, Rick is a developer, architect, speaker and author 
        on distributed .NET technologies and is a Solutions Architect at Neudesic.
    <p style="font-size: small">
        Rick focuses on helping his clients streamline business processes while 
        enhancing the productivity of its developers by combining modern, iterative 
        software engineering methodologies with the capabilities of the Microsoft 
        Platform to help close the value gap. Rick specializes in cloud technologies 
        such as Microsoft .NET, Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Azure to 
        deliver business value and drive revenue while reducing operational costs.
    <p style="font-size: small">
        Rick is an active speaker, writer and passionate community advocate in the 
        national .NET community. Rick is the President and Co-Founder of the Phoenix 
        Connected Systems User Group. Recent presentations include the 2009 Microsoft 
        SOA and Business Process Conference in Redmond, WA, and his numerous articles on 
        .NET technology can be found in-print and online in publications such as CODE 
        Magazine, DevX and his personal blog at <a href="http://rickgaribay.net">
        http://rickgaribay.net</a>.
    <p style="font-size: small">
        Rick is a proud Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) an has been awarded 
        the MVP designation for Connected Systems for three years in a row.
    <p>
        <b><span style="font-size: medium">March 2010 </span> </b>
    <br />
        <span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">Service Virtualization with 
        the Managed Services Engine</span><p class="MsoNormal">
                    Stephen Giffin, Managing Architect | ICC</p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
                    Join Stephen for an overview of some of the general features that are available 
                    in the Managed Services Engine. We will be using an example of how to reuse 
                    existing general purpose services and how to customize them to fit the needs of 
                    a new target application that is being developed. The target application we will 
                    review will need to take services that are general purposed and provide 
                    application specific implementation to meet the needs of the application itself. 
                    These new services will need to provide the target application development team 
                    with application specific implementation of the services as well as the ability 
                    for 3rd party developers to integrate to the target services at a later date. </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
                    The following are the core topics that will be demonstrated: </p>
    <ul>
                    <li>Re-hosting of services on different protocols </li>
                    <li>Real time message transformation </li>
                    <li>Custom service deployment by target client. </li>
    </ul>
                    Stephen Giffin is a Managing Architect who has designed large scale applications 
                    on the .NET and Java platforms. He has delivered projects for multiple 
                    industries, including automotive, public service, financial, and travel. Since 
                    2006, Steve has overseen multiple technical projects using .NET 3.5, WCF, WPF, 
                    LINQ, BizTalk, and WF. Stephen was the principle creative force behind the 
                    design and code automation of MVC4WPF (available on CodePlex). He has recently 
                    moved to Phoenix from Columbus, Ohio.</p>
    <p style="font-size: medium">
        <b>Februrary 2010 </b>
    <br />
    <span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold"> Pragmatic Content Publishing using Windows Live Writer </span><p class="MsoNormal">
                    Michael Collins, Principal Consultant, Custom Application Development Practice | 
                    Neudesic</p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
                    On the Internet or Intranet, content is king. When developing public web sites 
                    or features such as knowledge bases, FAQs, blogs, or other web applications, 
                    developers are often unnecessarily focused on building both the public and 
                    administrative sides of an application before the application can become useful. 
                    By taking advantage of standard web service APIs and tools such as Windows Live 
                    Writer, developers can make their job easier by focusing their efforts on the 
                    public-facing application and using other tools to do content publishing and 
                    management. </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
                    Many custom applications in today&#8217;s marketplace are web-based applications, and 
                    many personal web sites in today&#8217;s world are blogs. Bloggers have been taking 
                    advantage of publishing tools like Windows Live Writer to publish and manage the 
                    content to their blogs, but Windows Live Writer can be used for much more. In 
                    this presentation, Michael will discuss how to turn Windows Live Writer into a 
                    content manager for business applications outside of blogs such as FAQs, 
                    knowledge bases, non-blog commercial sites, content management systems, and 
                    other applications. </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
                    Michael Collins is a Principal Consultant for Neudesic specializing in custom 
                    application development on the Windows platform. Michael has been developing 
                    software professionally since 1994. Before joining Neudesic, Michael developed 
                    applications for healthcare, financial services, and retain businesses for 
                    companies including Kaiser, NONSTOP Solutions, PeopleSoft, and Lippincott-Raven 
                    Publishers. In late 2009, Michael started ImaginaryRealities, LLC, to publish 
                    custom applications that he is developing and releasing starting in 2010.</p>
                    </p>
    <p style="font-size: medium">
        <b>January 2010 </b>
    <br />
        <span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%; font-family: Verdana; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; font-weight: bold;">
        Using Azure and Table Storage for Growing Businesses &#8211; Availability, Scalability 
        and Usability</span><p class="MsoNormal">
                    <span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%; font-family: Verdana; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">
                    Chris Coneybeer, Independant Contractor</span></p>
<p>
            Join Chris for a presentation that will start with a quick overview of the 
            different storage options that are available in Windows Azure including a 
            discussion on Azure Table Storage and a quick overview of how it works. In 
            addition, Chris will share a WPF application that will be used for collecting 
            and submitting lead information to Azure Table Storage. Code will be presented 
            to show how to batch process data using entity group transactions. New data that 
            is added will be processed via an Azure Worker Role and Chris will demonstrate 
            different querying methods and storage of resulting data into partitions and 
            tables. 
    <p>
            Chris Coneybeer is a .Net and SQL developer that just recently moved to the 
            Phoenix area. Since 2002 Chris has been working with the .Net framework, mainly 
            building data driven applications and integration solutions mainly for the 
            retail sector. 
    <p>
            Just recently Chris started working as a contractor in the Phoenix area, before 
            this he worked as Developer for Micro Electronics, Inc. in Ohio. During his time 
            in IT, Chris has worked with several technologies, including SQL Server, ASP 
            .Net web services, WCF, forms applications, ASP .Net websites, SSIS and SSRS. 
    <p>
            Chris' interest in Azure cloud computing is driven by changes in solution 
            architecture, security implementation and data storage patterns that the 
            platform requires. 
    <p style="font-size: medium">
        <b>December 2009 </b>
    <br />
        <span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">Testable BizTalk - Increasing 
        Testability with Testing Frameworks</span><p class="MsoNormal">
                    Todd Sussman, Practice Lead, Connected Systems | Neudesic</p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        One of BizTalk&#8217;s major blocks to mainstream adoption is the pain associated with 
        testing of BizTalk artifacts.&nbsp; In the past, testing of BizTalk solutions 
        has been a lengthy and tedious process, often requiring cycling the entire 
        process and using esoteric debugging techniques to track down failure points.</p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        Thanks to improvements in BizTalk Server 2009, along with innovation coming out 
        of the BizTalk community, the testing story with BizTalk has improved 
        significantly. We will be looking at the &quot;Out-of-the-Box&quot; support for testing in 
        BTS 2009, as well as free testing frameworks BizMock and Bizmonade.&nbsp; We'll 
        explore the use and applicability of each of these tools along with strenths and 
        weaknesses.</p>
<p>
            Todd Sussman is the co-president and founder of the Phoenix Connected Systems 
            User Group. Todd is a Connected Systems Development Practice Lead with Neudesic 
            and Virtual Technical Specialist for BizTalk Server, with a focus on customer 
            relationship management and hospitality integration.</p>
            &nbsp;<b><span style="font-size: medium">November 2009 </span> </b>
    <br />
        <span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; font-weight: bold;">
        &quot;Oslo&quot; and Model-Driven Applications</span><p class="MsoNormal">
        Dan Weinmann, Principal Consultant | Neduesic</p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        Using the &quot;Oslo&quot; CTP we will learn the basic tools of &quot;Oslo&quot; in delivering 
        model-driven applications. &quot;M&quot; and &quot;Quadrant&quot; will be used in defining the 
        model's metadata that will be stored in the &quot;Oslo&quot; repository, in which the 
        model's data will be manipulated by a sample application.</p>
<p>
            Dan has over 10 years of experience in various industries including hospitality, 
            travel, health care, manufacturing, and financial services. Dan has served as a 
            solution architect, team lead, and a mentor of object oriented architectural 
            design and Agile practices. Dan brings expertise in architecting and the 
            development of rich user interfaces along with highly reusable and scalable web 
            services with an emphasis on Domain Driven Design. Dan&#8217;s designs follow common 
            design patterns and principles that deliver a decoupled and highly cohesive 
            implementation of components that are easily testable and replaceable. Dan&#8217;s 
            technical focus has primarily been in the Microsoft stack with C# being the 
            language of choice. In the presentation tier Dan has delivered ASP.NET (plus 
            AJAX), WPF, and WinForm applications with the use of Microsoft&#8217;s application 
            blocks such as Caching, Logging, and Unity. For the services tier Dan has 
            delivered both WCF services and .NET Remoting solutions that encapsulated the 
            business domain from the service consumers which provided a level of flexibility 
            in adapting to new business requirements. <p style="font-size: medium">
        <b>October 2009 </b>
    <br />
        <span style="font-size: small; font-weight: bold">BizTalk 2009 ESB Toolkit</span><p>
        Brendon Birdoes, Principal Consultant, Connected Systems | Neudesic<p>
        Itinerary based routing is the key pattern in delivering solutions in the ESB 
        Toolkit 2.0 for BizTalk Server 2009. The challenge though is how to take a 
        traditional BizTalk scenario and implement it using the ESB Toolkit and 
        itinerary based routing. 
    <p>
        Join Brendon Birdoes, Principal Consultant with Neudesic for a walk through a 
        real world scenario and implement it using the ESB Toolkit. Comparisons to a 
        typical BizTalk project and the advantages of using the ESB Toolkit will be 
        highlighted. For those new to the ESB Toolkit, some time will be spent 
        discussing what the Toolkit is along with features and capabilities.<p style="font-size: medium">
        <b>September 2009 </b>
    <br />
        <b><span style="font-size: small">Developing and Deploying a Windows Communication Foundation Application with 
        Azure Compute Services and Azure Table Storage </span> </b>
    <p>
        Rick G. Garibay, Practice Lead, Connected Systems | Neudesic<p>
        Delivering applications and services that are highly available is expensive. 
        While WCF makes it possible to develop applications that can be deployed in a 
        flexible manner to achieve various levels of availability and scale, it can be 
        difficult to predict (and budget for) the appropriate level of availability 
        given the not-so-predictable needs of the business and consumers. Windows Azure 
        makes it possible to deploy WCF applications and services that theoretically can 
        deliver unlimited levels of availability and scalability and be adjusted to the 
        dynamic needs of an application&#8217;s user population. 
    <p>
        Join Rick G. Garibay for a 
        discussion and live demonstration of how easy it is to develop, configure and 
        deploy a .NET 3.5 WCF software + services application for the Microsoft Windows 
        Azure operating system.&nbsp; 
    <p>
    <iframe id="I4" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="I4" 
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    <p>
        <span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold">August 2009</span>
        
<br />
    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"><strong><font size="2">PCSUG 1 Year Birthday Party</font></strong></span><p class="MsoNormal">
    Join us as we celebrate the <b>1 year anniversary </b>of the Phoenix Connected Systems User Group!         <br />
    <br />
        We will have pizza, sodas and cake along with some special community awards to 
        mark one year of community around Connected Systems Technologies!</p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
    In addition, we will present a one-year in review, highlighting the speakers
    and topics over the last year. Following that, we will have an open, round-table forum to talk about our plans for the next year as well as gather your feedback on topics and speakers you'd like to see over the next year.
        <br />
    <br />
    Thank you all for making PCSUG a success!
        
    </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        <b>Update:</b> Recap of our birthday party can be found here: 
        http://www.rickgaribay.net/archive/2009/08/14/what-a-night.aspx</p>

     
    <p>
    <span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold">July 2009</span>
        
<br />
    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"><strong><font size="2">No Meeting in July</font></strong></span><p>
    <span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold">June 2009</span>
        
<br />
    <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"><strong><font size="2">An 
    Insider's Look at CloudDB</font></strong></span><p class="MsoNormal">
        Scott Cate, President MyKb.com </p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
    Join Scott Cate as he provides a scenario-driven introduction to CloudDb. 
    CloudDB is a fast, simple, robust way to create, secure, and share data on the 
    internet. Import data from existing sources, manage permissions and roles, and 
    share your data with other applications via web services and other users.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    <o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Scott Cate is the President of myKB.com, Inc., in Scottsdale, 
    Arizona. myKB.com is a technology company specializing in commercial ASP.NET 
    applications. His product line includes CloudDB.com, myKB.com, KBAlertz.com, and 
    many others.&nbsp; Scott also runs AZGroups.com, an Arizona based INETA User 
    Group, and is a member of ASPInsiders.com, a group devoted to giving early 
    feedback to the Microsoft ASP.NET Team. Scott has also been awarded the ASP.NET 
    MVP for six years in a row, from 2004-2009.&nbsp; In addition, Scott has 
    co-authored an AJAX book titled &quot;Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET&quot;, authored both C# 
    and VB AJAX Video Training Courses for AppDev, as well as the non-fiction novel 
    &quot;Surveillance&quot; (<a href="http://surveillance-the-novel.com">http://surveillance-the-novel.com</a>).</p>
<p>
    <span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold">May 2009 </span>
    <br />
    
    <span id="UGCalendar_9_detailsRepeater_ctl01_contentLabel">
    <span style="font-size: 10pt"><b>Building Transactional Distributed Services with 
    Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 </b></span></span></p>
<p>
    Rick G. Garibay, Practice Lead, Connected Systems | Neudesic</p>
    <p>
        <span id="UGCalendar_9_detailsRepeater_ctl01_contentLabel">
        <span style="font-size: 10pt">Services coordinate work. Often, this work may be 
    distributed across any number of services which work together to fulfill a 
    business process. Transactional capabilities such as atomicity, consistency, 
    isolation and durability have long been a mainstay of database development, and 
    delivering the same level of reliability in service-oriented applications is not 
    optional. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) supports both local and 
    distributed transactions in intranet and internet scenarios. In this session, 
    Rick G. Garibay will explore why understanding transactional support in WCF is 
    critical to providing reliability in your service-oriented applications and how 
    you can leverage WCF&#8217;s support for local and distributed transactions with an 
    emphasis on delivering distributed services that are reliable and transacted.
    </span></span></p>
<p>
    <span id="UGCalendar_9_detailsRepeater_ctl01_contentLabel">
    <span style="font-size: 10pt">With over 10 years experience delivering solutions 
    on the Microsoft platform in various industry sectors, Rick G. Garibay is a 
    Microsoft MVP, Principal Consultant and Practice Lead with the Connected Systems 
    Development Practice at Neudesic. Rick focuses on streamlining business 
    processes while enhancing the productivity of developers by combining modern, 
    iterative software engineering methodologies with technologies such as Microsoft 
    .NET, Windows Communication Foundation and BizTalk Server to deliver business 
    value and drive revenue while reducing operational costs. </span></span></p>
<p>
    <iframe id="I2" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="I2" 
        scrolling="no" 
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    </iframe>
    <iframe id="I3" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="I3" 
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    </iframe>
</p>
<p>
    <span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">
    April 2009 - INETA Sponsored Event</span><br />
    <strong>
    <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
    Client Application Services</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Robert Green, Senior Consultant | MCW Technologies</p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
        <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
    Today, you can log into a web site such as Amazon and the site knows who you are 
    and what your preferences are. They are stored on the server and you are who you 
    are regardless of what computer you use. </span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
    Client Application Services gives you the ability to add this same functionality 
    to your Windows applications by using client service providers for login, roles 
    and profiles. These client providers use Web services to talk to the 
    corresponding ASP.NET providers. </span>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
    Join Robert Green, member of the INETA Speaker&#8217;s Bureau who will show you how to 
    add remote login, roles and profiles to client applications. You&#8217;ll see how to 
    build Web services to use the default providers. You&#8217;ll also see how to build 
    your own providers.</span> <o:p></o:p>
</p>

<u1:p></u1:p>
<p>
    <span style="font-size: medium">
<strong>March 2009</strong></span><br />
    <b>Expose and Consume Web Services from Anywhere with the .NET Service Bus</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    Todd Sussman, Practice Lead, Connected Systems | Neudesic</p>
    <p class="MsoNormal">
    Web services allow users to communicate with applications over a network. This 
    works great in intranet and internet scenarios, but what happens when you want 
    to expose or consume a service that is behind a firewall or home/office router? 
    &nbsp;Join Todd Sussman, Connected Systems Practice Lead at Neudesic as he shows you 
    how to expose and consume services across the largest network in the world, even 
    behind a home or corporate firewall using the .NET Service Bus.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">
    <iframe id="I1" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="I1" 
        scrolling="no" 
        src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/PCSUG/April%202009/20090312%20PCSUG%20.Net%20Service%20Bus.pptx" 
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    </iframe>
</p>
<p>
    <strong><span style="font-size: medium">February 2009 </span> </strong>
<br />
    <b>A First Look at Microsoft ESB Guidance 2.0 for BizTalk Server 2009</b></p>
<p>
    
    Brendon Birdoes, Practice Lead, Connected Systems | Neudesic</p>
    <p>
    
    Please join us as Brendon Birdoes, Principal Consultant, Connected Systems 
    Practice Neudesic, presents the concepts of an Enterprise Service Bus, and dives 
    deep into the features and patterns included in the next release of Microsoft's 
    ESB Guidance to explain how to apply these features and patterns to problems 
    faced everyday in the real world. </p>
<p>
    
    Having been working on the Microsoft Patterns and Practices team on the next 
    version of BizTalk ESB Guidance, Brendon will bring his in the trenches 
    expertise to bear to discuss some common scenarios and patterns that BizTalk ESB 
    Guidance strives to deliver in this exciting new release. Some of the features 
    Brendon will cover include Itinerary based service invocation, Resolver 
    Framework, Adapter Framework and Messaging Framework. In addition, Brendon will 
    cover important patterns including Mediation, Process Manager and Data 
    Transformation. 
    <br />
    <iframe scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" style="width:240px;height:66px;margin:3px;padding:0;border:1px solid #dde5e9;background-color:#ffffff;" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/PCSUG/February%202009/ESBG%7C_PCUSG.pptx"></iframe>
    <iframe scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" style="width:240px;height:66px;margin:3px;padding:0;border:1px solid #dde5e9;background-color:#ffffff;" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/PCSUG/February%202009/ESBGDemo.zip"></iframe>
    </p>

<p>
    <strong><span style="font-size: medium">January 2009 </span> </strong>
<br />
    <strong>Exposing and Consuming Resources with REST in WCF</strong>
</p>
<p>
    
    Rob Bagby, Developer Evangelist | Microsoft Corporation</p>
    <p>
    
    Rob Bagby,
    
Developer Evangelist with Microsoft Corporation will illustrate how to develop a RESTful service, exposing a catalog.  Rob will then illustrate how to accomplish some tasks such as controlling the URI and take advantage of scalability. 
<br />
<br />
    
Rob Bagby is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft.  He has been touting Microsoft technologies for better than a decade. Microsoft, however, has only been paying Rob for these services for the past 2 years.  Rob has been invited to speak at various national and international technical conferences such as Microsoft PDC, TechEd, DevConnections and VSLive (places he is not welcome are too numerous to list).  Rob plans to continue evangelizing Microsoft technologies until he retires or is otherwise "asked to&quot;. </p>


<p>
<strong><span style="font-size: medium">November 2008 </span> </strong>
<br />
    <strong>An Introduction to Windows Workflow 3.5</strong>
</p>
<p>
    Rob Wisehart, Team Lead | DriveTime Sales &amp; Finance Company</p>
    <p>
    Rob Wisehart, technical team lead for internal systems at DriveTime will provide 
    a foundational introduction to WF, Microsoft&#8217;s premier framework for building 
    workflow-enabled applications and services. This session will focus covering 
    workflow types, basic activities, custom activities and demonstrating how to 
    workflow enable a WCF service and compose it with other WCF services hosted in 
    different runtimes.
    <br />
    <iframe scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" style="width:240px;height:66px;margin:3px;padding:0;border:1px solid #dde5e9;background-color:#ffffff;" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/PCSUG/Nov%202008/WF%20Presentation.pptx"></iframe>
    <iframe scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" style="width:240px;height:66px;margin:3px;padding:0;border:1px solid #dde5e9;background-color:#ffffff;" src="http://cid-df930ee6f91132fd.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Public/PCSUG/Nov%202008/WF%20Presentation%20Demos.zip"></iframe>
</p>


                <p>
                    <strong><span style="font-size: medium">October 2008 </span> </strong>
                <br />
                    <strong>Building Service-Oriented Applications with WCF</strong>
                </p>
                <p>
                    Rick G. Garibay, Practice Lead, Connected Systems | Neudesic</p>
    <p>
                    Join Rick G. Garibay, Microsoft Connected Systems MVP and Regional Connected Systems Practice Lead, Neudesic for an introduction to building service-oriented 
                    applications with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF is the premier 
                    framework for building service oriented applications in .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5. 
                    The WCF API unifies messaging, ASMX Web Services, .NET Remoting and COM+ 
                    Enterprise Services into a single programming model that makes true 
                    service-orientation tenable. Content, code samples and live demos will be 
                    provided to build a foundational understanding of SOA and familiarize the 
                    audience with the core concepts and techniques of WCF. Rick is a Microsoft MVP 
                    and Principal Consultant with the Connected Systems Development practice at 
                    Neudesic. 
</p>

                <p>
                    <strong><span style="font-size: medium">September 2008 </span> </strong>

                <br />
                    <strong>Architectural Overview of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 </strong>
</p>
                <p>
                    Todd Sussman, Practice Lead, Connected Systems | Neudesic</p>
    <p>
                    In this meeting, Todd Sussman,  Connected Systems Development Practice Lead with Neudesic and 
                    Virtual Technical Specialist for BizTalk Server will start off with an overview of BizTalk Server 2006 R2. 
                    BizTalk is considered the lynchpin for Microsoft&#8217;s Real-World SOA vision. 
                    BizTalk is both a message-based integration platform, as well as a business 
                    process automation (BPA) platform. We will look at the architecture of the 
                    product stack, and the tools developers will use. We will discuss real-world 
                    solutions, development and deployment methodologies, and environmental 
                    considerations such as HA and scalability. By the end of the meeting, attendees 
                    will have an understanding of how the capabilities of BizTalk can fit into an 
                    SOA. </p>

                <p>
                    <strong><span style="font-size: medium">Ausgust 2008</span> </strong>
<br />
                    <strong>Putting The &quot;A&quot; into Service Orientation </strong>
</p>
                <p>
                    Todd Sussman, Practice Lead, Connected Systems | Neudesic</p>
            <p>
                    Rick G. Garibay, Practice Lead, Connected Systems | Neudesic</p>
            <p>
                    Join Todd Sussman, a Connected Systems Development Practice Lead with Neudesic and 
                    Virtual Technical Specialist for BizTalk Server and Rick G. Garibay Connected Systems Practice Lead with Neudesic
                    and Microsoft Connected Systems MVP to discuss common myths 
                    surrounding Service-Oriented Architecture, as well as formulating a common 
                    definition that we will use moving forward. In addition, Todd will explain what 
                    the major differences are between being &quot;Service Oriented&quot; and having a &quot;Service 
                    Oriented Architecture&quot;. </p>



